Clock Cottage, and Stable Cottage at Brickendon Bury is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. House, stable.
Clock Cottage, and Stable Cottage at Brickendon Bury
- WRENN ID
- slow-column-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1966
- Type
- House, stable
- Address
- Clock Cottage, and Stable Cottage at Brickendon Bury, Brickendon Lane, Brickendon Liberty
- OS grid reference
- TL 329 104
- Coordinates
- 51.77722, -0.07387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Clock Cottage and Stable Cottage at Brickendon Bury is a stable block that has been converted into two houses. The building, marked with '1894 G & S P' on an armorial panel, was constructed for George Pearson and converted after 1971. It features red brick with a blue brick plinth and window sills, a moulded sandstone entrance archway, and an armorial panel on the right-hand buttress. The first floor has a half-timbered black-and-white design and a recessed top of the tower. The steep red tile roofs are complemented by black painted bargeboards with pendants.
The structure is an irregular L-shaped block that faces south, fronting the main drive. It has twin gables and canted small bay windows on the lower, 1½-storey left-hand part known as Stable Cottage. Adjacent to this is a four-storey tower with a cross-roof. The ground floor features a tunnel vaulted carriageway with a tall pointed stone entrance arch situated between projecting brick buttresses. There is a semi-circular rear arch leading to the yard.
Prominently, a large segmental-pedimented clock projects from the upper part of the front, situated below a balustraded balcony and above a four-light leaded mullioned window over the arch. A polygonal stair turret projects from the east side of the tower, topped with an open timber stage that houses a bell and has a tiled and lead cap roof with an enlarged knob finial. Attached to the corner is a two-storey house known as Clock Cottage, which features a projecting gable at the corner with a bracketed oriel window above a canted bay window, and four-bay casements with small panes. The east gable end has a large projecting chimney with an expanded base. The carriageway and yard are paved with stable paviors.
Local climate
Clock Cottage, and Stable Cottage at Brickendon Bury sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Brickendon Bury
- Main Group of Brick Farm Buildings at Clements Farm
- Western Group of Brick Farm Buildings at Clements Farm
- Stable Block to South of Western Group of Farm Buildings at Clements Farm
- Monumental Column in Sailors' Grove, Bayfordbury, at Grid Reference Tl 3204 1012
- Dunkirk Farmhouse
- Morgans Junior School
- 20, Morgans Road
- The Harts Horns
- Screen and garden gate 40m west of Balls Park Mansion